A St Patrick’s Day like no other
Mar 17th, 2020 | By The Editor
Whilst today is St Patrick’s Day it will be quite like any other St Patrick’s Day I have ever known.
Posts Tagged ‘ Massachusetts ’
Watching whales off Massachusetts
May 29th, 2018 | By The Editor
The tourist board in the US state of Massachusetts has developed a Massachusetts Whale Trail.
Where the experts holiday: Kirsty Marrins, travel blogger
Mar 19th, 2018 | By Kaye Holland
Travel, food and lifestyle blogger, Kirsty Marrins, shares her travel highs and lows with Just About Travel readers
Saturday snippets: April 29th 2017
Apr 29th, 2017 | By Adrian Lawes
A museum of ice-cream, another about Dr Seuss, Bexit, being a gin ambassador and new flights to Russia attract Adrian’s attention this week.
Saturday snippets: 30th of July 2016
Jul 30th, 2016 | By Adrian Lawes
In a week full of incident, peachicks, penguins, an Air France strike and Pokemon Go take Adrian’s attention before he goes off to visit the Big Cheese in Caerphilly today!
Nantucket Island: from land, air and sea
Oct 6th, 2014 | By Lynn Houghton
Lynn visits Nantucket Island in the north eastern part of the USA, today a summer destination but perhaps still better known for it’s whaling heritage.
Just magic: there’s more to Salem than witches
Mar 21st, 2012 | By Kaye HollandSalem is famous for its witch trials of 1692 but there’s more to this Massachusetts town than witchcraft, writes Kaye Holland
From the surf to the snow: riding the Coast Starlight
Feb 25th, 2012 | By Adrian LawesAdrian rides the rails with Amtrak. Read about his rail journey – arguably the best way to cover America’s huge distances – exclusively on CD-Traveller
Music and the Summer Mass(es)
Jun 5th, 2011 | By The EditorMassachusetts in the north east of the United States is known for being the home of the Kennedy clan, the location of Salem and those witches, beautiful Autumn foliage, for being one of the founding states of the country and music. Music? Apart from Tanglewood what is there?
More than you might imagine.
The Cultural Coast of Massachusetts
May 24th, 2010 | By The EditorThis is the name given to an area just south of Boston in the USA. The name meant nothing to me but then neither did one of the other names, Quincy County. But if I had been told that this included Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrim fathers landed in 1620, and Nantucket where the US whaling industry was once based then I might have realised just how important, historically, this region is. The subheading for the area, “Where American Begins” probably reflects the area better.
As Boston has direct flights to Dublin and London it is easy to tag a few days onto a Boston trip and spend a weekend exploring this area to the south. As to what to see, here are just a few suggestions.
